Even Churchill admitted that their position was perilous: in a telegram to Lord Gort on 27 May, only one day before the Belgian capitulation, he wrote, " We are asking them to sacrifice themselves for us.

He spent his leisure time devising with Philip Christison more up-to-date theories of logistics, staff duties and tactical handling, only to be reprimanded by Lord Gort, the Commandant, for taking things too fast.

On 22 February 1911, Lord Gort married Corinna Vereker, a second cousin, at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London.

), Lord Gort advocated the primacy of building a land army and defending France and the Low Countries over Imperial defence after France had said she would not be able on her own to defend herself against a German attack.

Lord Gort was given the post of Inspector of Training and the Home Guard, and with nothing constructive to do visited Iceland, Orkney and Shetland.

68, 000 men and the commander of the BEF — Lord Gort — evacuated on 31 May.

The GOCinC, Lord Gort, ordered Barker to form the rearguard with I Corps to cover the evacuation, and surrender to the Germans as a last resort.

His godparents were: King George VI ( his paternal uncle ); Queen Mary ( his paternal grandmother ); Princess Helena Victoria ( his cousin ); the Lady Margaret Hawkins ( his maternal aunt ); Major the Lord William Montagu Douglas Scott ( his maternal uncle ); and the Viscount Gort ( who was unable to attend ).

His attitude alienated seasoned campaigners such as Field Marshals John Dill and Lord Gort, the latter of whom, it was reported, could not bear to be in the same room with the Minister.

By 1940, his relations with Lord Gort, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France, had deteriorated such that neither man had confidence in the other.

Ismay would later write: " Sandhurst never meant nearly so much to me as Charterhouse had ", but he enjoyed his time at the school and studied alongside many men who went on to become important military officers, including Lord Gort, Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt and Cyril Newall.

A viscountcy with the same title as the Irish peerage was then conferred in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to a later Lord Gort.

An unqualified reference to " Lord Gort " will almost always be to the sixth viscount.

John Prendergast-Smyth, Viscount Gort and Lord Kiltarton, was the nephew of Sir Thomas Prendergast, 2nd Baronet, and had succeeded to the Prendergast estates on the death of this uncle in 1760 ( see Prendergast Baronets, of Gort ).

Lord Gort had no sons to inherit his two titles but, unusually, he had been able to secure a special remainder both in 1816 and in 1810, the remainder being in favour of his nephew Charles Vereker, the son of his sister Juliana by her marriage with Thomas Vereker.

This Lord Gort was a distinguished soldier whose personal courage in the First World War was recognised with the highest decoration of the British Empire, the Victoria Cross, plus three further gallantry decorations, before achieving the most senior post in the British Army, Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

It was Lord Gort who commanded the BEF in 1939 and his leadership during the disastrous withdrawal from France preserved his reputation at an unhappy time for the nation.

He kept his style modest, avoiding, for example, the self-conscious possibility of Lord Gort and Gort.

Field Marshal Lord Gort had no living sons and, unlike his own ancestor, did not have a special remainder, so on his death just one month after the creation of the new title, the new viscountcy became extinct, whilst the Irish titles passed to his brother.

All Irish peers at Westminster served as a result of an election process: those not elected to the House of Lords were entitled to stand for election to the House of Commons, leading to the apparent incongruity of Lord Gort, MP.

This was the case with the second Lord Gort and the third Lord Gort, but ceased to be an option for the sixth Lord Gort.

Gort had foreseen the order and preliminary plans were already in hand.

Gort had sent General Adam ahead to build the defensive perimeter around Dunkirk, and General Brooke was to conduct a holding action with the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 50th Divisions along the Ypres-Comines canal as far as Yser while the rest of the BEF fell back.

Gort had ordered Sir Ronald Adam, 3rd Corps Commander, and French General Falgade, to prepare a perimeter defence of Dunkirk.

Gort sent the battle-worn 3rd, 4th and 50th Divisions into the line to fill the space the Belgians had held.

Lt .- Col. Viscount Gort then proceeded to organise the defence of the captured position until he collapsed ; even then he refused to leave the field until he had seen the " success signal " go up on the final objective.

Gort and other generals disliked Hore-Belisha's showmanship, but their main disagreements had stemmed from differences of opinion ( the Pillbox affair ) concerning the defence of France along the border with Belgium.

Turnour had already been created Baron Winterton, of Gort in the County of Galway, in 1761, and was made Viscount Turnour, of Gort in the County of Galway, at the same time as he was given the earldom.

John Prendergast Smyth had already been created Baron Kiltarton of Gort, in the County of Galway, also in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1810.

For this reason, the grant of special remainders for UK titles was far more strict than it had been for Irish titles and the Field Marshal Lord Gort was not sufficiently unique to merit this extra favour.

This means that there had been the option of creating the original Gort peerage as a UK title.

Standish Vereker was the brother of Field Marshal The Lord Gort, who had been the sixth Viscount of the Irish peerage and the first and last Viscount of the United Kingdom peerage ; Standish inherited the Irish viscountcy and barony in 1946.

Klaatu steps out of the spaceship and addresses the assembled scientists, explaining that humanity's penchant for violence and first steps into space have caused concern among other inhabitants of the universe who have created and empowered a race of robot enforcers including Gort to deter such aggression.

After Klaatu is revived, he steps out of the saucer, giving the scientists the following ultimatum: Earth can either decide not to threaten aggression on other planets and join other spacefaring worlds — a peace ensured by a massive deterrent force, consisting of robots similar to Gort — or else " this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder ".

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Klaatu tells Helen Benson his concern about Gort and requests she memorize the phrase, saying " There's no limit to what he can do.

Gort awakens and kills two guards before Helen can relay Klaatu's message.

On 27 November 1918, Gort was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions on 27 September 1918 at the Battle of the Canal du Nord, near Flesquieres, France.

On 26 May, Anthony Eden — the Secretary of State for war — told General Gort that he might need to " fight back to the west ", and ordered him to prepare plans for the evacuation.

On 21 December Gort recommended to the Chiefs of Staff that Britain would need to help France defend Holland and Belgium and that for that purpose the British Army needed complete equipment for four Regular army infantry divisions and two mobile armoured divisions, with the Territorial army armed with training equipment and then war equipment for four divisions.

Gort served in various positions for the duration of the war.